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Finding the Main Idea - Sorting Worksheet
PDF | 3 pages|Grades: 3 - 4A worksheet and answer sheet to use when teaching students how to find the main idea of a text.
Use this worksheet when teaching your students about the main idea comprehension strategy.
Students cut out paragraphs and then match them with the main idea on the table provided.
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NSW Curriculum alignment
- EN2-11D
Responds to and composes a range of texts that express viewpoints of the world similar to and different from their own
Victorian Curriculum alignment
- VCELY257
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to evaluate texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features
- VCELY288
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning to expand content knowledge, integrating and linking ideas and analysing and evaluating texts
Australian Curriculum alignment
- ACELY1680
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to evaluate texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language featuresElaborationsmaking connections between the text and students own experie...
- ACELY1692
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning to expand content knowledge, integrating and linking ideas and analysing and evaluating textsElaborationsmaking connections between the text and studentsâ own experience and oth...
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